Institute of Engineering & Technology

TECH PAPER







Name: ____________________________
Branch: _______________ Year: ______



Instructions
1. Correct answer carries 2 marks.
2. Wrong answer carries -1 marks.
3. Time for this question paper is 30 min.





Q. 1 The binary system uses powers of
A. 2
B. 10
C. 8
D. 16

Q. 2
Restarting a computer may also be called what?
A Cold booting
B Warm booting
C Safe booting
D Fast booting

Q. 3
How many bytes are in a kilobit?
A 8
B 100
C 128
D 1,000

Q. 4
What type of wireless technology is used to create a piconet?
A Wi-Fi
B Cellular
C Bluetooth
D Infrared

Q. 5
What is another name for a search term entered into a search engine?
A Query
B Post
C Thread
D SERP

Q. 6
What type of component might use an X86 architecture?
A HDD
B SSD
C CPU
D RAM



Q. 7
Which is a type of Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory?
A Flash
B Flange
C Fury
D FRAM

Q. 8
Who developed Yahoo?
A Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson
B David Filo & Jerry Yang
C Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn
D Steve Case & Jeff Bezos

Q. 9
'.I NI ' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
A Image file
B System file
C Hypertext related file
D Image Color Matching Profile file

Q. 10
Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft?
A Shawn Fanning
B Ada Byron Lovelace
C Sabeer Bhatia
D Ray Tomlinson

Q. 11
Compact discs, (according to the original CD specifications) hold how many minutes of
music?
A 74 min
B 56 min
C 60 min
D 90 min

Q. 12
'. BAK' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
A Backup file
B Audio file
C Animation/movie file
D MS Encarta document

Q. 13
Who co-created the UNIX operating system in 1969 with Dennis Ritchie?
A Bjarne Stroustrup
B Steve Wozniak
C Ken Thompson


D Niklaus Wirth
Q. 14
'. BAT' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
A Compressed Archive file
B System file
C Audio file
D Backup file

Q. 15
What does EPROM stand for?
A Electric Programmable Read Only Memory
B Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
C Evaluable Philotic Random Optic Memory
D Every Person Requires One Mind

Q. 16
Which of the following computer language is used for artificial intelligence
A FORTRAN
B PROLOG
C C Language
D COBOL

Q. 17
From what location are the 1st computer instructions available on boot up
A ROM BIOS
B CPU
C boot.ini
D CONFIG.SYS

Q. 18
Software programs installed unknowingly or unintentionally are also called what?
A Shareware
B Scareware
C MODs
D PUPs

Q. 19
Which of the following is not an example of a bitrate?
A 320 kbps
B 128 Kbps
C 64 kbps
D 360 kbps

Q. 20
Which is based on peer to peer server technology?
A E-mail
B SNS


C Torrent
D Search Engines

Q. 21
Which of the following statements best describes third party software?
A Software that runs on multiple platforms.
B Software that runs on hardware developed by a different company.
C Software that has not yet completed the testing phase.
D Software that is distributed illegally.

Q. 22
What service translates multiple IP addresses in a LAN to a single I P address?
A DNS
B NAT
C XSLT
D HTTP

Q. 23
What is another name for a storage device?
A Memory
B Volume
C Dropbox
D Vault

Q. 24
Which of the following is a valid I P address?
A 123.456.789.012
B 12.34.56.78
C 255.0.1
D 169.174.190

Q. 25
What does the "X" in XHTML stand for?
A Extra
B Extensible
C Extreme
D Executable

Q. 26
What setting defines the spacing between characters of a font?
A Kerning
B Tracking
C Word spacing
D Line height

Q. 27
What type of data is stored in a TIFF file?
A Audio Data
B Video Data


C Image Data
D Textual Data

Q. 28
Which of the following resolutions might be used by a 16:9 display?
A 640x480
B 1024x768
C 1440x900
D 1920x1080

Q. 29
UTF is a collection of what type of standards?
A Character Encodings
B File Formats
C Icon Designs
D Cascading Style Sheets

Q. 30
A golden master, or "GM," refers to what type of product?
A CPU
B Motherboard
C Software Program
D Firewall

Q. 31
What is the central location where a version control system saves files called?
A Bash
B Repository
C Bank
D Bin

Q. 32
Which of the following Wi -Fi standards was standardized most recently?
A 802.11a
B 802.11ac
C 802.11n
D 802.11n

Q. 33
What do software developers use OpenGL to create?
A Game sprites
B Clip art
C 3D animations
D Photo filters

Q. 34
Which of the following formats supports the least number of colors in a single image?
A GIF
B JPEG


C JPEG 2000
D PNG-24

Q. 35
What type of code is not processed by a Web browser?
A HTML
B XHTML
C PHP
D JavaScript
Q. 36
Which of the following statements about Bit Torrent is false?
A It is peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol.
B It was designed as a replacement for the HTTP protocol.
C It allows users to download single files from multiple server at one time.
D It supports resuming downloads that have been paused or stopped

Q. 37
What is the purpose of an access control list ( ACL)?
A It defines user permissions for files and folders.
B It limits computer access to registered users.
C It contains login information for a single user.
D It prevents specific users from accessing a network.

Q. 38
The POP3 protocol is used for what Internet service?
A Web Hosting
B Email
C File Transfers
D Firewalls

Q. 39
What is the most common target of denial of service attacks?
A Personal Computers
B Mail Servers
C Name Servers
D Web Servers

Q. 40
Which of the following social media services is designed for business networking?
A Omegle
B Twitter
C VK
D LinkedIn



Q. 41
Which protocol is used by network devices, such as routers to send error messages
indicating, for example, that a requested service is not available or that a host or router
could not be reached?
A UDP
B TCP
C ICMP
D IP

Q. 42
Which of the following best describes pseudocode?
A It has highly strict syntax.
B It is a type of machine language.
C It is used to port software between operating systems.
D It contains phrases that are universally understood.

Q. 43
Which of the following best describes a bitmap?
A A vector image
B A raster image
C An uncompressed video file
D A compressed video file

Q. 44
What system is specifically used to manage multiple versions of programs and files?
A File Manager
B Windows Explorer
C Version Control
D Finder

Q. 45
What is the function of the address resolution protocol ( ARP)?
A It translates domain names to IP addresses.
B It converts IP addresses to hostnames.
C It translates hostnames to GUIDs.
D It converts IP addresses to MAC addresses

Q. 46
Which of the following does CTP measure?
A Processor performance
B Data transfer speeds
C Media read/write performance
D Hardware failure rates

Q. 47
What is a search engine that searches multiple search engines called?
A Meta Search Engine
B Universal Search Engine
C Search Portal


D Search Station
Q. 48
What is the small icon next to a URL or page title in a web browser called?
A Bookmark
B Placeholder
C Favicon
D Webicon

Q. 49 To deliver a message to the correct application program running on a host , ...............
address must be consulted.
A Port
B Physical
C IP
D None

Q. 50
What type of port did PCs use for connecting keyboards and mice before USB?
A FireWire
B VGA
C SCSI
D PS/2

Q. 51
Which computer company is called big blue?
A Adobe
B Microsoft
C IBM
D Google

Q. 52
What does pptp stand for?
A Peer to Peer Transfer Protocol
B Point to Point Transfer Protocol
C Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
D Peer to Point Tunneling Protocol

Q. 53
What is the extension of Excel File?
A .exl
B .xel
C .xls
D .doc




Q. 54
What does a DLL file contain?
A User preferences
B System settings
C Temporary data
D A library of functions

Q. 55
How many bytes are in an SI megabyte?
A 1,000
B 1,024
C 1,000,000
D 1,048,576

Q. 56 What is the purpose of metadata?
A It logs system events.
B It is used to convert data from one format to another.
C It serves as a backup of the original data.
D It describes other data.

Q. 57
Which technology allows you to convert a scanned document into a text file?
A OCR
B FTP
C TTF
D CRT

Q. 58
What does a 404 error in a Web browser indicate?
A You are not connected to the Internet.
B The website you are visiting has been blocked.
C The server you are connecting to is not responding.
D The specific page you visited cannot be found.

Q. 59
A temporary storage area that contains a queue of jobs is also called what?
A Package
B Archive
C Bus
D Spool

Q. 60
What is the process of smoothing out digital noise in graphics called?
A Refracting
B Dithering
C Rounding
D Flattening



Q. 61
What type of computer would most likely contain a folder named "cgi-bin"?
A A Windows desktop computer
B A Linux-based web server
C A thin client
D A CGI workstation

Q. 62
What component does DMA bypass?
A The motherboard
B The CPU
C The system RAM
D The system bus

Q. 63
X12, TRADACOMS, and EDIFACT are different formats of what standard?
A FTP
B MTU
C EDI
D LTE

Q. 64
What is the technical name for a "rule of thumb?"
A Mnemonic
B Heuristic
C Template
D Sample

Q. 65
What language is designed to be a client-side scripting language?
A PHP
B JavaScript
C C++
D Delphi

Q. 66
What is the term "abend" short for?
A Algorithm bend
B Arithmetic bend
C Abnormal end
D Absolute end

Q. 67
What is the standard file system used by compact discs called?
A CD-ISO
B CD-ROM
C CDFS
D CDRW



Q. 68
Which of the following statements best describes video interlacing?
A Displaying a split-screen video in a single frame
B Displaying every other horizontal line of a video
C Crossfading between video clips
D Applying color filters to live video

Q. 69
What are small bitmap graphics used in software applications called?
A Sprites
B Vectors
C Layers
D Pixels

Q. 70
Which of the following interfaces provides a digital connection?
A VGA
B HDMI
C Composite
D Component